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BOTTLE WASHING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Sept. 28, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL KIRSOHNER, OF DARMSTADT, GERMANY.

BOTTLE-WASHING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,341, dated January 10, 1899. Application filed September 26, 1898. Serial No. 691,847. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL KIRSCHNER, a citizen of the Dukedom of Hesse, residing in Darmstadt, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Washing Apparatus, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its object to produce a bottle-washing machine which is of great simplicity of construction and operates to produce a rapid easy washing out of bottles.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the apparatus; Fig. 2,- a cross-section thereof; Fig. 3, an end View thereof, and Fig. 4 a plan view thereof.

As may be seen in the drawings, three fiat iron bars of h are arranged over the vat t', which contains the washing liquid, and the trunnions of a series of drums Ct are mounted in the said bars. On one side, on prolongations of the trunnions, levers g are mounted between the flat iron bars f and h, which levers are movably connected at their free ends with a bar 70. These levers g pass through brackets g on the ends of the drums, whereby the drums may be oscillated by the movement of the levers. A double-armed lever Z engages this bar k, which lever is pivoted on a pin m between the bars f and h, and to the other end of which a draw-bar n is attached,which extends to a wheel 0, mounted at the front part of the machine and movable in such a way that the diameter of the circle, which the point of attachment of the drawbar 77. describes on the wheel being rotated, corresponds to the extent of oscillation of the levers g. On the rotation of the wheel 0 the drums a' oscillate. Endless-woven bands d, provided on a portion of their inner sides with brushes I), pass around said drums and their lower portions hang in the washing liquid.

The machine may be operated by hand, foot, or motor driving-gear. Its method of working is as follows: The bottles 0 which are to be cleaned are half filled with a mixture of grit ,or sand and water and not too tightly corked. They are then placed in the lower part of the webs d, which are provided with brushes 1), and receive a shaking motion by the oscillation of the drums at. A thorough cleaning of the bottles 0 internally thus takes place, and they are also thoroughly cleaned on the outside by the action of the brushes 6 while entirely immersed in the washing liquid. The bottles 0 may be conveniently inserted in the machine or withdrawn therefrom;

I claim as my invention A bottle-washing machine, characterized by endless bands 01 being placed over oscillating drums at, said bands receiving the bottles 0 which are to be cleaned in their lower loop provided on the inner side with brushes 6 and immersed in the washing liquid so that the bottles 0 undergo a sh akin g motion and thereby are cleansed both internally and externally, substantially as described and shown.

CARL KIRSCHNER.

Witnesses:

DEAN B. MAsoN, JEAN GRUND. 

